Apparent contradictions

Alongside the kerfuffle between Netanyahu and the newly united PLO-Hamas Palestinian leadership, Mahmoud Abbas this week made a statement in sympathy with survivors of the Nazi holocaust, in context of “ethnic discrimination and racism which the Palestinians strongly reject and act against.”

Speaking of apparent contradictions, the State Department is launching another “Free the Press” campaign even while pressing to jail Pulitzer Prize winning NY Times reporter James Risen for his refusal to give up his sources.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation explains why we should be alarmed by the FCC’s latest attack on net neutrality, calling its “pay to play” model “profoundly dangerous for competition.”

Trees budding, already in bloom, and bulbs sprung. We saw the sunset over Provincetown Bay one night last week. April rains have coaxed up the tulips by our front door and the birds keep talking: Spring, Yes.